
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Pierre Richard-Willm
Lieutenant Serge Polenoff

Sessue Hayakawa
Ysamo, Kuli

Lucienne Le Marchand
Namo

Roland Toutain
Pawlik
Michiko Tanaka
Kohana

André Gabriello
Pô

Camille Bert
Le commandant

Janine Darcey
Une geisha
Foun-Sen
Une geisha

Philippe Richard
L'attaché russe

Ky Duyen
L'agent secret

Georges Saillard
Le médecin

Henry Bonvallet
Linh-Nam

Léon Arvel
Le domestique